Tech enthusiasts are ditching the Raspberry Pi. A new report shows that used $100 HP mini PCs are easily outperforming Pi 4 boards for home lab servers. With a fully equipped Pi 5 hitting $246.95 in 2026, x86 hardware is taking over. #RaspberryPi #HomeLab #TechNews #MiniPC
https://blazetrends.com/first-impressions-replacing-a-raspberry-pi-home-server-with-a-100-hp-mini-pc/?fsp_sid=51885

I wanted to add a scroll wheel and after a few ideas, I settled on this USB rotary encoder adapter by Adafruit. Make a small case for it and a large wheel and now I can scroll through my radio list quickly! It emulates a keyboard so it sends arrow up and down presses so it should work with lots of things. Push in on the wheel sends a return. Flying USB cable because it’s an accessory 😄

#CyberDeck #RaspberryPi #Maker #3DPrint

I created a game pad "snap-in" that replaces the keyboard, thanks to a donor 8bitdo Zero 2 Bluetooth game pad. Works great with retroarch!

Updated the repo:

https://www.printables.com/model/1775113-dont-panic-cyberdeck

#RetroGaming #RaspberryPi #CyberDeck #DontPanic #RetroArch #3DPrinting #Maker

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A pair of hands holding a chunky handheld in gray plastic with a LCD monitor showing Sonic 1 and a game pad with beige buttons at the bottom. There's also a handle at the top right.

Added a visor to the top of the LCD and now it's giving Weyland-Yutani vibes 👾

#CyberDeck #Maker #3DPrint #RaspberryPi #Pimoroni Alien #Nostromo

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A small handheld computer with a LCD and a light gray visor at the top of it with a red "NOSTROMO" logo on it. There's a small keyboard below and a handle on the right.

I've cleaned up my Raspberry Pi selfhosting setup a bit. I'm using two, each in an Argon ONE V5 case with a 1TB NVME drive, running Raspberry Pi OS.

'one' is serving Nextcloud All-in-one, Immich and Vaultwarden via a Caddy reverse-proxy. All using Docker containers, Caddy as a custom build with my domain DNS provider added.

'two' is used as remote borg backup destination for 'one', and later a few monitoring tools.

All three sites are using a wildcard certificate for my domain, and I connect via WireGuard (on the router) when away from home.

Path of least resistance:

I've tried Podman, AlmaLinux, and running a manual install of Nextcloud on Ubuntu. This setup follows recommended installations methods, and gives me fewer things to worry about.

#selfhosting #raspberrypi #nextcloud #immich #vaultwarden #caddy #wireguard

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Photo of whiteboard with green text and drawings. Left: WireGuard, Caddy, Vaultwarden, Nextcloud, Immich and BorgBackup, each with a check mark. Right: a simple illustration showing server 'one' and 'two' and borg backup flow.

I absolutely hate this timeline

#rpi #raspberrypi

All of my main website subdomain projects have been moved over to my #RaspberryPi Zero (named Hermes). If things continue to work well, I plan to port my main blog over as well!

Ref: https://hermes.btxx.org

Then I will begin porting over my clubs/custom domain projects to my *other* Raspberry Pi 3B... (named Apollo, obviously 😛 )

i want to use 1x UK 240V 13A mains socket to power 3x Raspberry Pi 4B via USB-C. for... reasons, this seems to be a lot more difficult than you might expect.

has anyone done this, and if so, can you tell me about the solution you used that you know works well in practice?

#rpi #raspberrypi

This is neat: RISC OS Direct for Pi 5 — https://www.riscosdev.com/projects/risc-os-direct-for-pi-5/

It runs RISC OS directly on top of Raspberry Pi OS, without installing it as a new OS. It has a few problems: no sound, and I can't find the quit button, but it's way less hassle than dedicating a Raspberry Pi to this quaintly weird OS.

#RaspberryPi #RiscOS

BTW, I've been using it as a streaming radio station player. The speakers are not great/not terrible but it gives a vintage radio quality to it which is charming.

I wrote my first Python program that uses curses to make a console driven radio player 😎

It lasted 7 hours 47 minutes on one charge (with the display on!) using 2 x 3000mAh 18650s.

#Cyberdeck #RaspberryPi #Maker #3Dprint

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A small computer in dark gray plastic with a LCD display with a list of radio station names in text. There's a keyboard below and a handle on the top right.

Accidental feature: the screen can tilt up when flat on a desk.

#CyberDeck #RaspberryPi #Maker #3DPrint

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A small computer in gray plastic on a desk with a square LCD proper up at an angle and a keyboard below it and a handle on the right.

I uploaded the model for the "Don't Panic Cyberdeck" to Printables.

Let me know if you make one. Enjoy!

https://www.printables.com/model/1775113-dont-panic-cyberdeck

#Cyberdeck #RaspberryPi #Maker #3DPrint #Pimoroni

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Hi Raspberry Pi experts, I can't sort out this error: 'GPIO not allocated' for a HyperPixel 4.0 rectangular touchscreen connected to a pi 4B. Here is the full report I filed at the support forum:

https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/gpio-not-allocated-error-for-hyperpixel-4-0-on-a-raspberry-pi-4b/28950

What can cause this error if no other devices are using the pins? How to overcome it?

#RaspberryPi #RaspberryPi4B #HyperPixel4

Thanks for the comments all! A couple of people mentioned it but yeah it does have strong Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy vibes!

#CyberDeck #RaspberryPi #Maker

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A hand holding a small computer by the handle with small keyboard at the bottom and display at the top left with the words "don't panic" in large friendly letters.

And after a few days of modeling and a 3D print, it looks like a handheld! And it has a handle too 😊

Raspberry Pi 3A+
Pimoroni Hyperpixel square LCD w touch
Rii mini BT keyboard
2 x 18650 cells w LX-2BUPS
Volume knob for two rear speakers

#CyberDeck #RaspberryPi

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A small handheld computer in dark grey plastic standing up on a white table. It has a square LCD showing text from a Gopher site, a small keyboard at the bottom, and a handle on the top right.

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I haven't turned on this raspberry pi 4 8gb of ram in like 3 years. I've been feeling like resurrecting it and setting it up again.

What services should I install on it?
What casing or peripherals should I use?

#Hardware #RaspberryPi #PCB #Computing #SelfHosting

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An #introduction perhaps?

I’m this middle-aged dad from Germany. I have a wonderful partner, 4 kids and a cat.

I care about society and technology. A retired #FOSS activist, these days I work at a globocorp doing IT stuff for trains 🚄

My interests include baking #bread, #fermenting stuff, paddling a whitewater #kayak, n00bing around with #Python, #RaspberryPi and #arduino, and oh so many books.

There’s never enough time, and I haven’t been bored in more than a decade.

Been a while since I posted a blogpost so this is a quick one.

Raspberry Pi OS can cloud-init now for pre-boot config which is awesome.

But there's not many guides out there that cover the right syntax for static IPv6 networking with it, so I threw together my working config and notes in case it helps anyone.

https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2026-06-18-static-ipv6-config-with-cloud-init-on-raspberry-pi-os/

#linux #raspberrypi #ipv6

@rickoooooo @benbrown

I'm extremely impressed by this, of course.

But I would be happy putting together little #RaspberryPi boxen that could do the same job almost effortlessly, and be hidden all over the place.

I feel like I've got a blog post a-brewin' about retiring my Nook Glowlight 2 for a jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite 2 with #KOReader.

It might end up being two posts, once I've worked out how to set up #Wallabag on a #RaspberryPi 3B+.

Not Psion, but definitely #permacomputing.

It's currently just a simplified version of my existing blog, but I'm hosting this website on my Raspberry Pi Zero for testing purposes:

https://fsck.lol

We will see how things go over time, then possible port over the "real" thing 😛

#raspberrypi #nginx #alpinelinux #selfHosting

Apropos "It doesn’t always have to be Linux - An intro to FreeBSD" 🙂

I've had Pi-hole running on Raspberry Pi OS for a decade (more?), but now I'm trying FreeBSD and AdGuard Home on a Raspberry Pi 4. A little bit apprehensive about the ufs file system, but let's see!

#freebsd #raspberrypi #adguardhome

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

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Anyone got tips for getting a 6 year old up and running with a #RaspberryPi, maybe a good book? When I was his age I was just reading the Amiga manual and fiddling about with it, learning that way. That doesn’t seem to be a thing so much?

We were without power for ~18 hours yesterday, but I’m still determined to eventually switch hosting my personal blog over to my local Raspberry Pi Zero

https://hermes.btxx.org/

#alpinelinux #raspberrypi #selfHosting

70 days uptime on my #HP #parisc 715/100XC Webbserver running #NetBSD

Haha.. I think i will retire it from online duty
And let my #raspberrypi mini take over

Good experiment
Only thing i did was to tune nowait down from 600 to 100 in inted.conf on my httpd

Pining for a faster Raspberry Pi? You'll need a pinch of pi-tience (sorry/not sorry) as the next major revision won't be arriving soon.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/raspberry-pi-6-2028-no-npu?v1

#RaspberryPi #OpenSource #linux

Run your own decentralized social platform on shared hosting or a tiny VPS WITHOUT Redis, PostgreSQL, or complex infrastructure.

What it makes so special to me? It looks awesome, comes with a great admin web interface and does not require a VPS instance where it can also be operated on a cheap shared hosting systems. By the given requirements, it also easily runs on a #RaspberryPI and all kind of systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #Illumos and more!

This all makes it perfect to everyone and even beginners to run their own instance. With relay support (e.g., fedi-relay.gyptazy.com) it even can consume and post content over non-directly connected instances in the #fediworld!

Kudos to the author of Starling: @df@s.dfaria.eu

More information:
GitHub project: https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling
My blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/starling-simple-fediverse-server/

#fedi #fediwall #opensource #decentralized #social #socialmedia #alternatives #mastodon

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Starling as a Fediverse/ActivityPub Server

I may have to move it to slightly more powerful hardware for my own sanity…

https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html

#snac #snac2 #alpinelinux #linux #raspberrypi

https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-static-site-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html

#raspberrypi #alpinelinux #linux